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2nd Ld-Writethru: Zou Kai concludes China's brilliant gymnastic show with horizontal bar gold

BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- China's Zou Kai won the horizontal bar gold medal at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, putting a perfect ending to the host country's brilliant gymnastic show.

China garnered a total of nine golds in the top-class gymnastic competitions, setting its best result in the discipline at one Olympic Games. It was also the first Olympic gold captured by a Chinese gymnast in horizontal bar.

Meanwhile, it was another gain in Zou's medal haul after he has won the floor exercise and the men's team titles in Beijing. That enabled Zou to equal the record set by China's gymnastic ...

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